Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

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Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by ToshioWrites » Tue May 22, 2018 12:30 pm

He can't fight ever again, that ki disorder thing King Kai mentioned has ruined his body and he is unable to fight whether in a living body or dead body but he can spend the rest of his time out with his family. No dragonballs including SDB can fix this issue. Not even Zeno will fix this for him. OR his family is ERASED for good (permenantly nobody or nothing can change this) but goku can fight for the rest of his time.

So fighting but no chichi, gohan and goten or no fighting but chichi, gohan and goten get to stick around

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by Bullza » Tue May 22, 2018 12:47 pm

Definitely his family.

He might be obsessed with fighting and glad to leave them for years at a time to train but he'd never have his family erased just for that.

Neither would Vegeta.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by Yuli Ban » Tue May 22, 2018 12:52 pm

I can't imagine Goku would choose fighting over family so long as he's still able to help train a new generation of fighters.
If the alienness of the Saiyan mindset were kept, then I would have said he'd choose fighting, but these days Saiyans are pretty obviously spiky-haired monkey-tailed humans who are just led by a government run by the Marines. And they aren't even that in U6.
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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by Whatever » Tue May 22, 2018 2:20 pm

As Goku has shown before,he can live whatever in the afterlife or on the world of the living without his family but thats not the case with fighting.

He would get sad about his family but he would get over it,without fighting he would be depressed.
Of course if he made the choice himself he would choose his family but assuming someobody else made the choice for in 2 different scenarios thats how it would play out.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by Doctor. » Tue May 22, 2018 2:38 pm

If his family dies or gets hurt severely so he can enjoy himself fighting, then I'm sure he would sacrifice his passion for his family. But if it's just the case of priorities, then they lie with martial arts. You can see that in the last chapter of the manga.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by ekrolo2 » Tue May 22, 2018 3:10 pm

I don't think Goku would accept fighting forever if it erased his family. The disease would probably leave him feeling melancholic but I think he'd just get over it.
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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by Lord Beerus » Tue May 22, 2018 3:59 pm

He'd choose his family for sure. But then again, he nonchalantly abandoned his family on a casual whim to fight and live with a child he barely knew...

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by PFM18 » Wed May 23, 2018 12:18 am

I mean Goku's entire character revolves less around his family as the fact that he wants to fight strong guys. If he cared about his family's life being in jeopardy he never would have given Cell the Senzu Bean, he would have killed Fat Buu instead of irrationally putting the hopes on Gotenks, not used Instantaneous Movement to get to Freeza before Trunks conveniently showed up, he would have taken care of Gero before he could have made the androids, would have used SSJ3 against Vegeta so Buu couldn't be hatched, would have not encouraged Zeno to start a universal tournament, etc etc. All of these things reflect his decisions of wanting to have a good fight regardless of the consequences. He has always prioritized fighting over family. He's very selfish that is the character.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by Simere » Wed May 23, 2018 1:52 am

Never mind family, which shouldn't be given special import, Goku wouldn't let anyone die in this scenario.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by PerhapsTheOtherOne » Thu May 24, 2018 7:06 pm

The thing with Goku is that he doesn't really understand the larger scale/picture of threats.

He only really gets it through his skull when he's faced by direct threats to himself and his friends, and often only when they directly threaten them personally.

He'd NEVER choose to harm innocents directly; doing so is contrary to his simplistic moral code.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by Meshack » Fri May 25, 2018 2:48 pm

Too bad the disorder is something created for the animated version of Super only and hasn’t been in the series during the arcs after the Sixth Universe Arc.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Sat May 26, 2018 12:21 pm

He'd be in serious conflict within himself choosing either him. His mind would say fighting due to his saiyan instinct while his heart says family.
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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by Analytic » Sat May 26, 2018 12:42 pm

DBS Goku might pick fighting, but any other Goku would choose family.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by PerhapsTheOtherOne » Sat May 26, 2018 12:53 pm

Analytic wrote:DBS Goku might pick fighting, but any other Goku would choose family.
That's a load of crock.

Goku's naive and doesn't see the big picture, but if he were to have to personally choose? It'd be a choice he'd have a hard time making. As he plainly puts it to 17 after the two of them handled the space poachers, he hates to see innocents be hurt.

Heck, when Goku Black sadistically tells him about how he stole his body and then killed his family with it afterwards, Goku went NUTS and started beating on Black and Future Zamasu like crazy; he even broke one of his unspoken rules of fighting and was going to finish Black off even though he was already down.

Goku can come off as uncaring and idiotic, but he DOES care; it's just that the threat has to be entirely direct and to his face to get him out of his Saiyan mindset.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by OhHiRenan » Sat May 26, 2018 5:54 pm

Goku loves fighting, but he would NEVER do anything that would straight up erase his family from existence.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by Dr. Casey » Sat May 26, 2018 11:43 pm

OhHiRenan wrote:Goku loves fighting, but he would NEVER do anything that would straight up erase his family from existence.
Yep.

I agree with everything PerhapsTheOtherOne has said. Goku is selfish and neglectful of his personal relationships, and I wouldn't blame Bulma or the other more 'normal' characters at all if they started to lose patience with him by the end of the series (between not seeing his friends for five years and ditching Chi-Chi at the 28th Budokai)... but he's not evil, and doing what amounts to straight-up murdering his entire family is a line I can't see him crossing.
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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by theherodjl » Sun May 27, 2018 1:45 am

Goku would choose to save his family from oblivion any day. He might be unhappy losing almost all of his strength & transformations, but he'd live at least knowing he can still practice some martial arts in his severely weakened body, and that his family was safe. He might even like the challenge of being on par with the average Earthling, and trying to figure out some way to not be useless.
Now if it were the case of leaving his family, alive & healthy, Goku would happily head on out for the rest of his life/existence to train.
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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by GreatSaiyaman123 » Sun May 27, 2018 6:58 pm

Goku already made this choice on the last chapter of the manga. And he chose fighting. That's what he lifes for. He would be really sad, but he'd get over it after a while.
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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by PerhapsTheOtherOne » Sun May 27, 2018 7:30 pm

GreatSaiyaman123 wrote:Goku already made this choice on the last chapter of the manga. And he chose fighting. That's what he lifes for. He would be really sad, but he'd get over it after a while.
Problem: You've conveniently left out context and the way in which Goku's character has progressed.

In that scenario, everything was peaceful and his family was fine.

But in the OP's scenario? Goku literally has to choose whether to KILL HIS FAMILY DEADER THAN DEAD, or choose to fight; he's also making this decision at the behest of a malevolent force he can't directly fight against and is very much being forced to directly address this threat to the things he cares about.

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Re: Which would Goku pick : Fighting or Family ?

Post by Dbzfan94 » Sun May 27, 2018 8:36 pm

GreatSaiyaman123 wrote:Goku already made this choice on the last chapter of the manga. And he chose fighting. That's what he lifes for. He would be really sad, but he'd get over it after a while.
But his family were all alive and well and he could see them whenever. If it meant having them die forever and never see them again, it wouldnt be so clear cut.

He wouldnt put his selfishness over the permanent deaths of the people he loves.

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